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Loading... Aspects of Alice: Lewis Carroll's Dream Child as Seen Through the Critics' Looking-glasses, 1865-1971by Robert Phillips (Editor)
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) mrsnickleby | Nov 15, 2023 |  Interestingly, Leslie wrote that Carroll's "Easter Greeting" (www.snrk.de/snarkhunt/#easter) was added to the 1876 edition of "Alice in Wonderland". In the notes (p. 493), the editor Robert Philips correctly points out that the "Easter Greeting" was added to "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876). I also will read the other articles in teh book and hope to learn more about what has inspired Carroll's writings. GoetzKluge | Sep 23, 2017 | That silly statement reflects the difficulty with any collection of essays on Lewis Carroll and the Alice books. Criticism is often a very useful thing -- but sometimes, especially when one is desperate to find a new idea to make one's way into print, the result is not worth the paper it's printed on. And that affects this book. Robert S. Phillips has gathered about three dozen articles and excerpts about the Alice books, from a wide variety of sources, broken up into categories such as biographical essays, literary criticism, and psychoanalysis. It's sad to see that there is nothing of significance on logic, mathematics, or word games -- the keys to understanding the books, but admittedly easier for mathematicians than literary types. It's a major hole that detracts from this book very much. Some of the essays on other topics are very valuable -- it's nice to see the full version of T. B. Strong's description of his friend Dodgson (Carroll), for instance. But some of the rest -- well, the word "Ugh" springs to mind. Lanning's "Did Mark Twain Write Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" is ridiculous, and Leslie's "Lewis Carroll and the Oxford Movement" (which claims that Alice is about that attempt to bring Anglicanism closer to Roman Catholicism) is an absurd bore. And then there is the section on "Freudian Interpretations." Eight articles on that. News flash, folks: Freud was wrong. Psychodynamic therapy is dying out, because it doesn't work. Dodgson was neurotic -- very much so -- but it wasn't because he was whatnot-retentive; it was because he had autism! So the eight Freudian articles are complete bunk. And monotonous, because they all say the same thing. Saying it eight times does not make it true; it makes it repetitive. That doesn't mean the book is useless. This book manages to gather most of the really stupid interpretations of Alice -- i.e. the ones that have done incredible damage -- and stick them all in one place so readers can get a good overview of their complete pointlessness. For someone who wants to refute the idiocy, this is a very useful book. But if you want to actually learn something about Charles Dodgson, Alice Liddell, and Alice's Adventures, either cut the book in half at about page 275 and skip all the stuff after that -- or read a genuine study of Dodgson, such as Morton Cohen's biography. (  )4  waltzmn | Jun 5, 2016 | no reviews | add a review
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Pt. 1. Personal and biographical: Today's "Wonder-world" needs Alice / W.H. Auden -- Alice / Roger Lancelyn Green -- Lewis Carroll / T.B. Strong -- Lewis Carroll / Virginia Woolf -- Lewis Carroll's gay tapestry / Alexander Woollcott -- On the Alice books / Walter de la Mare -- Escape through the looking-glass / Florence Becker Lennon -- pt. 2. As Victorian and children's literature: From children's books / Anonymous -- From literature for the little ones / Edward Salmon -- Alice in Wonderland in perspective / Elsie Leach -- Alice books and the metaphors of Victorian childhood / Jan. B. Gordon -- Alice / Robert Graves -- pt. 3. Comparisons with other writers: Lewis Carroll and T.S. Elliot as nonsense poets / Elizabeth Sewell -- On Lewis Carroll's Alice and her white knight and Wordsworth's "Ode on immortality" / Horace Gregory -- Did Mark Twain write Alice's adventures in Wonderland? / George Lanning -- Alice meets the Don / Jon Hinz -- pt. 4. Philosophical and others: Philosopher's Alice in Wonderland / Roger W. Holmes -- Wonderland revisited / Harry Levin -- C.L. Dodgson: the poet logician / Edmund Wilson -- Last days of Alice / Allen Tate -- pt. 5. Church and chess: Lewis Carroll and the Oxford Movement / Shane Leslie -- Through the looking-glass / Alexander L. Taylor -- pt. 6. Language, and parody, and satire: Poems in Alice in Wonderland / Florence Milner -- Burble through the Tulgey Wood / John Ciardi -- Note on Humpty Dumpty / J.B. Priestley -- Logic and language in Through the looking-glass / Patricia Meyer Spacks -- pt. 7. Freudian interpretations: Alice in Wonderland psychoanalyzed / A.M.E. Goldschmidt -- Psychoanalytic remarks on Alice in Wonderland and Lewis Carroll / Paul Schilder -- From "Lewis Caroll's adventures in Wonderland" / John Skinner -- About the symbolization of Alices's adventures in Wonderland / Martin Grotjahn -- From "The character of Dodgson as revealed in the writings of Carroll" / Phyllis Greenacre -- From "Further insights" / Géza Róheim -- From "The thinking of the body" / Kenneth Burke -- Alice in Wonderland: the child as swain / William Empson -- pt. 8. Jungian and mythic: From a letter to Lewis Carroll / Robert Scott -- Alice as Anima: the image of woman in Carroll's classic / Judith Bloomingdale -- Alice's journey to the end of night / Donald Rackin -- pt. 9. Psychedelic: White Rabbit / Grace Slick -- Lewis Carroll - the first acidhead / Thomas Fensch. No library descriptions found. |
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